Monday, October 20, 2014

Rising star Lupita Nyong'o takes the stage on Sesame Street to talk about skin. She explains how everyone has skin and how important this is, then she and Elmo decide that they love their skin. Thank you again Lupita and Sesame Street for bringing up an old topic that still needs to be discussed.

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Skylight Gallery at the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza - Fulton Street between Marcy and Brooklyn Avenues in Brooklyn, New York will host an important exhibit on young girls starting on October 25, 2014.

I AM HERE: Girls Reclaiming Safe Spaces is an
exhibition of photographs and words curated by renown photographer
Delphine Fawundu and writer Ibi Zoboi. This exhibit features Delphine Fawundu's images portray girls of color around the world
within their own unique safe spaces. Quotes from successful women of
color will reflect on memories of a time when they were truly safe in
their own skins, homes, and neighborhoods.

Within this
context, "Safe Space" is defined as settings where girls of color are
validated and affirmed and images portray positive reinforcements of
happiness and security. The pure essense of these very candid
slice-of-life images counter the often prevailing negative stereotypes
of girls of color around the world as the sole victims of violence,
sexual abuse, human trafficking etc. This exhibition and its supporting
programs will explore the unending need to uplift the images of girls of
color in order to reclaim the safe spaces of self, home, school,
community, nation, and ultimately, the world. Photographs will be on display from October 25, 2014 to December 19, 2014.